The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884) by Mark Twain is one of the truly great American novels, beloved by children, adults, and literary critics alike. The book The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn tells the story of "Huck" Finn (first introduced as Tom Sawyer's sidekick in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer), his friend Jim, and their journey down the Mississippi River on a raft. Both are on the run, Huck from his drunk and abusive father, and Jim as a runaway slave.

As Huck and Jim drift down the river, they meet many colorful characters and have many great adventures. The true heart of the story The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, however, is the friendship between Huck and Jim.

The Gambler is a short novel by 19th century Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky about a young tutor in the employment of a formerly wealthy Russian general. The novella The Gambler reflects Fyodor Dostoevsky's own addiction to roulette, which was in more ways than one the inspiration for the book: Fyodor Dostoevsky completed the novella under a strict deadline to pay off gambling debts.

The Gambler treated a subject Fyodor Dostoevsky himself was familiar with — gambling. Fyodor Dostoevsky gambled for the first time at the gaming tables at Wiesbaden in 1863. From that time till 1871, when his passion for gambling subsided, Fyodor Dostoevsky played at Baden-Baden, Homburg, and Saxon-les-Bains frequently, often beginning by winning a small amount of money and losing far more in the end...

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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain is a very well-known and popular story (published 1876) concerning American youth. Mark Twain's lively tale of the scrapes and adventures of boyhood is set in St. Petersburg, Missouri, where Tom Sawyer and his friend Huckleberry Finn have the kinds of adventures many boys can imagine: racing bugs during class, impressing girls, with fights and stunts in the schoolyard, getting lost in a cave, and playing pirates on the Mississippi river. In the 1840s an imaginative and mischievous boy named Tom Sawyer lives with his Aunt Polly and his half-brother, Sid, in the Mississippi River town of Petersburg, Missouri. After playing hooky from school on Friday and dirtying his clothes in a fight, Tom Sawyer is made to whitewash the fence as punishment all of the next day.

Peter Pan; or, the Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up (1904) is the title of Scottish playwright and novelist Sir James Matthew Barrie's most famous play, and Peter and Wendy (1911) is the title of J. M. Barrie's novelisation of it. Both tell the story of Peter Pan, a mischievous little boy who can fly, and his adventures on the island of Neverland with Wendy Darling and her brothers, the fairy Tinker Bell, the Lost Boys, the Indian princess Tiger Lily, and the pirate Captain Hook. The play and novel were both inspired by J. M. Barrie's friendship with the Llewelyn Davies family. The novel Peter Pan follows the play closely, but includes a final chapter not part of the original play. In 1929, J. M. Barrie gave the copyright of the Peter Pan works to Great Ormond Street Hospital, a children's hospital in London.